Peter Renton is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the LendIt Conference, the world’s first and largest conference dedicated to the P2P (peer to peer) and online lending industries. He is the Founder of Lend Academy, the leading educational resource for the P2P lending industry and he is a co-founder of NSR Invest, an investment management and analytics business specializing in P2P lending. His blog is the most widely read website about P2P lending and through his writing, interviews and video courses he has helped tens of thousands of people understand this new asset class. He is considered the world’s leading expert on P2P lending and speaks regularly on the topic at industry conferences. He is also the author of The Lending Club Story, the definitive guide to the world’s largest P2P lender. Peter Renton has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, NPR, CNN, Fox Business News, the Financial Times, TheStreet.com and dozens of finance blogs and smaller publications.